a low number of patents per unit of R&D in one country yet actually be more productive than the same industry in another …

-sized enterprises (SMEs) exhibit a much stronger reliance on ‘monetary patents' than large companies and nearly half of the SMEs in the … sample patent for monetary reasons. Second, SMEs tend to use their patents more actively than large firms. Third, smaller …

The study of the innovative output of organizations often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of … reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all organizations file their patents at the EPO, raising the … specter of a selection bias. Using novel datasets of the whole population of patents by Belgian firms and German universities …

This paper provides novel empirical evidence that patents enable knowledge disclosure. The analysis exploits the … Invention Secrecy Act, which grants the U.S. Commissioner for Patents the right to prevent disclosure of new inventions that …

increase damages awarded in cases of infringement. Historically, marking is done by listing the associated patents on the … by allowing patentees to place a web address, linking to a list of the associated patents, on the product instead of the …

The notice failure in patents is a significant source of legal uncertainty for innovators. One aspect of notice failure …

-in-differences regressions suggest that the increase in fees led to a weeding out of low-quality patents. About 14 per cent of patents in the …